We examine the mountaineering career of the Duke of Abruzzi, who was born on this day in 1873. The energetic royal was ...

The four Siberians came to K2 in the summer of 2006 to climb the Abruzzi Route. The so-called Kuzbass Expedition — named ...

Numerous successful K2 summits were registered on the 26th of July, sixty years after the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world carried out by the historic Italian expedition.

A Polish expedition hoping to complete the first winter ascent of the world's second-highest mountain, K2, says one of its climbers appears to have launched an unauthorised solo attempt.

"Based on a deep analysis of the situation in agreement with the team I decided today to end the mountain action on K2," Mr Wielicki wrote. "The priority of the expedition is the safety of its ...

Many climbers have tried and failed to scale K2. Kiyoshi Furuno, the former president of the Japanese Alpine Club, was involved in planning this expedition from the beginning. He said that the ...

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was also part of the expedition but did not summit). The Dutch team, including leader Wilco Van Rooijen, Cas van de Gevel, Ger McDonnell (the first Irishman to summit K2), and Pemba Gyalje ...

and an ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world. He has also filmed expeditions to Mount Everest, Dhaulagiri, Aconcagua, and other expeditions for CBS, Dish Network, Discovery ...